Dative Pronouns

[Claire Bowern]

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Does anyone know of a language where a dative pronoun becomes the
nominative? I'm not really interested in languages where the dative and
accusative fall together, and then that case becomes "nominative". I have
an example from Pitta-Pitta (Pama-Nyungan) where the orginal 1sg dative
*ngantya turns up as nominative, a new dative stem is invented and
accusative is basically unaffected. I believe something similar happened in
Frisian but I would like some more examples if possible.
 
Thanks,
 
Claire Bowern
ANU